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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Onehawk33, post: 386966, member: 13978&quot;]I started putting together a set of solid F-XF barber quarters last fall, (36/74 so far).&nbsp; I found the BCCS website with their 2006 census data.&nbsp; I noticed that when comparing mintage&#039;s vs. their population rank that some d/mm&#039;s seemed to be under represented.&nbsp; I ranked the coins by mintage then compared their pop. rank.&nbsp; 7/8 d/mm&#039;s with the largest disparity between mintage rank and pop. rank were New Orleans issues.&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>For instance, the 1902-O, has 53rd lowest mintage (4.748 mil.) but ranked 18th scarcest in the BCCS pop. rank.&nbsp; Followed by 1900-O (44/8), 1903-O (47/18), 1894-O (40/14), 1906-O (32/6), 1892-O (39/15) and 1893-O (43/24).&nbsp; These all have mintage figures from 2-3.5 million, not terribly low.&nbsp; &nbsp; Since November, I&#039;ve been to 6 shows and found these dates to be difficult in the grade I desire.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Curious as to others thoughts.&nbsp; Am I reading to much into a fairly small sample? (120 submissions)&nbsp; Have any of you found these and other New Orleans barbers to be tougher then mintages may indicate?&nbsp; Why is this so?&nbsp; Was a growing southern population/economy utilizing New Orleans coinage more heavily during the barber years?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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